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Rocket iCluster

Rocket iCluster is a logical replication solution providing high availability and disaster recovery for businesses running IBM i on IBM Power Systems platforms. Remote journaling provides near real time transaction replication and switching, sync check, automatic monitoring and alerts are also included in the product.

Business Value

Pattern Overview

iCluster helps protect your critical business applications from outages, whether planned (for backups, maintenance, or PTFs) or unplanned. iCluster is the ideal solution for a variety of clients: • Small to medium businesses that need an easy-to-use, software or hardware-based, high-availability solution • Large enterprises with multiple mission-critical applications to protect • Financial institutions that want an aggressive recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) through a product that can scale up to over 2 billion transactions per hour. HA Assist complements the capabilities of a switched disk or geographical mirroring solution using IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i. iCluster includes a Java-based GUI administrator as well as a green screen command and menu-based interface to enable you to integrate high-availability functions into your existing batch routines. iCluster offers the following functions and benefits: Role swapping (fully or partially automated); synchronization checking of file attributes, file contents, IFS attributes, object existence, data area contents, and output queues; automatic resynchronization of out-of-sync objects; and alarms and alerts including e-mail notifications and user-defined thresholds. Very high speed replication capabilities that can scale to handle the size of your business and transactional volumes.

Business Case

Business Problem

Technical Details

Local and remote journaling support including automatic creation of remote journals IASP to *SYSBASE or IASP to IASP replication HA Assist to complement IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i Continuous synchronization checking including contents sync check and auto repair Automatic repair of out of sync/suspended objects Switching and automatic failover Automatic event monitoring, EMAIL notifications, alarms and alerts Automatic journal management JAVA GUI based interface for ease of administration

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Provider Information

Name:
Jamie Griesbach

Email:
jgriesbach@rocketsoftware.com

Phone:
1.781.684.2125

PureSystems patterns are part of a broad portfolio of PureSystems solutions for business, cloud, and infrastructure applications.